Louise Bourgoin

Louise Bourgoin was born in Rennes and earned her degree from École des Beaux-Arts in 2004. Destined for a career as an art teacher, she failed her teaching examination in 2005 and decided against all odds to pursue a career in television, making her debut writing and performing her own sketches for the program Le Grand Journal on Canal+, where she remained until 2008.

After appearing in Manuel Poirier's Les femmes... ou les enfants d'abord... (Women or Children First) in 2002, she found herself starring alongside Fabrice Luchini in La fille de Monaco (The Girl from Monaco) by Anne Fontaine in 2008, having been noticed by Fontaine for her television work. For this role she earned the Prix Raimu for Best Newcomer in 2008 and a César nomination for Most Promising Actress in 2009.

Bourgoin then appeared in a series of films taking place in many different worlds, including as Laurent Tirard's Le petit Nicolas (Little Nicholas), Christophe Blanc's Blanc comme neige (White Snow), Luc Besson's Les Aventures extraordinaires d'Adèle Blanc-Sec (The Extraordinary of Adèle Blanc-Sec), Emma Luchini's Sweet Valentine, Gilles Marchand's L'autre monde (Black Heaven), and Rémi Bezançon's Un Heureux événement (A Happy Event).

In early 2012, Louise Bourgoin starred in Frédéric Beigbeder's L'amour dure trois ans (Love Lasts Three Years) and made her stage debut with La Peur (Fear) at the Centre Georges Pompidou, followed by Olivia Rosenthal and Laurent Larivière's production A Quoi rêvent les autres. In 2013 she appeared in Guillaume Nicloux's La Religieuse (The Nun) with Isabelle Huppert, and in 2014 Axelle Ropert's Tirez la langue Mademoiselle (Miss and the Doctors), followed by release of her first English-language film, The Love Punch (Duo d'escrocs), directed by Joël Hopkins and starring Pierce Brosnan and Emma Thomson.

Bourgoin has since filmed in the United States for William Monahan's Mojave, also starring Oscar Isaac and Garrett Hedlund, and Morocco for Joachim Lafosse's White Knights, starring Vincent Lindon. Parallel to her career as an actress, Bourgoin published, with Éditions du Musée d'Orsay, her first book, Orsay mis à nu, in which she comments on more than 80 masterpieces of painting, and she has illustrated a series of ceramic plates for Pierre Frey.

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